The Archbishops’ Council
was established as a result of the National Institutions Measure 1998 with
the intent that it would ‘co-ordinate, promote, aid and further the work
and mission of the Church of England.
It consists of the two Archbishops and a council of elected and appointed members.

The Council oversees roughly £50million of grants and expenditure each
year.
The figures given below are based on 2003 (ignoring an exceptional item relating
to one property).

INCOME

£ Million

Church Commissioners

21.0

Dioceses

20.0

Other bodies (including Church Commissiones again)

3.6

Sales etc

2.5

Grants etc

1.0

Investments

0.9

Other

1.2

EXPENDITURE

£ Million

Grants to Diocese (mostly in respect of clergy sipends)

20.0

Training

8.8

Grants to external bodies

1.2

Mission agencies pension costs

0.4

Central costs and bodies responsible to the Council

16.1

Most of the £21 million from
the Church Commissioners goes straight to the Dioceses. See the Commissioners
page for how this is allocated. This money is allocated partly according
to need so that the poorer Dioceses get more.

Diocesan Contributions

The contributions from the Diocese is split into 4 and is often referred to
as Vote 1, Vote 2 etc because General Synod votes to agree these in July of
each year.

Vote
1 covers training (£8.8m) around £5.5m is spent on the colleges
which are mostly for residential training and £2.6m on courses run in
Dioceses or regions. The colleges are largely independent bodies.

Vote
3 covers grants to other bodies. About £1.2 million is passed on:
£360,000 on the costs of the Anglican Communion
£181,000 on Church Urban Fund
£379,000 on UK ecumenical bodies
£180 million on international ecumenical bodies.

Vote
4 covers some £400,000 of pensions costs for clergy working for
mission agencies. Prior to the new Pensions Measure the entitlement of licensed
clergy was protected even if they were working for a body such as Church Society
or one of the Mission agencies. The Synod agreed to meet the costs of the Mission
Agenes and the Church Pastoral Aid Society but not the costs of many smaller
bodies including Church Society.

Vote
2 covers most of the remaining work of bodies answerable to the Council.
The expenditure of these bodies is roughly £16.1million. The major items
are:

Bodies responsible to AbC

£ 000's

Ministry Division

1,200

Council for Christian Unity

300

Board of Education

698

Mission and Public Affairs

1,200

Cathedral & Church Buildings

716

Finance Division

1,100

Legal Office

1,300

Communications Unit

495

Records Centre

505

In addition there are such costs
as :

£ 000's

Office services

715

Office accomodation

2,041

Human resources dept.

426

IT provision

1023

Church House Publishing & Bookshop

2,020

In turn these
bodies do generate some income of their own:

£ 000's

Church House Publishing & Bookshop

1,948

from external bodies

538

From other National Institutions

3,656

The remaining income comes from
legacies £739,000.

The income from the other National
Institutions is in repsect of services and work provided to those institutions
by the Council and bodies responsible to the Council. This includes £3million
from the Church Commissioners, £552,000 from the Pensions Board and £44,000
from the National Society.